My Networked Life: Clora Romo, Mexico City, Mexico

Meet Clora Romo. She lives and works in Mexico City. She is an architect with a mind for bettering the city and promoting the culture. She uses the network to bring people together through Pase Eusted, an online community she co-founded.

August 21, 2012

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Clora Romo, Mexico City, Mexico"Technology enables not only collaboration, but to approach different people that maybe are not close to me, my work or my framework."
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Being an architect in the 21st century, it's exciting because you have to find new ways to create, and construct, and build spaces.

I'm interested in building spaces where people can gather. So I have to think in different formats, and including technology in order to get people to interact in a better way.

After finishing school I realized that I didn't only want to do designing and building. I started this studio with a couple of friends. We started doing these forums. I think that designing the way that people interact, architecture has to do with all of that.

We started building a new community of people who wanted to collaborate between each other.

This helped us build Pase Usted, this NGO that is also with forums with a specific format of presentation, and that attends different subjects that are more important. We manage to do certain forums around the city's technology and sustainability.

Nowadays, in order to reach your audience you have to thrive through, let's say, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, maybe Instagram as well. That's how we can get into the people's and the community's mind, in order for us to have a greater impact.

Pase Usted has helped enable some good ideas. One of them is an online system for schools. Another one is a platform for fundraising that's used by charities and NGOs.

I'm excited, and I'm inspired every time I meet new people that are generating new ideas and new projects that are impacting in a positive way the city that we live in.

Technology enables not only collaboration but to approach different people that maybe are not that close to me, my work, or my framework.

"Two-thirds of students (66%) and more than half of employees (58%) cite a mobile device (laptop, smartphone, tablet) as 'the most important technology in their lives.'" - Cisco Connected World Technology Report